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HTTP Extensions in progress
Adds an optional `context` parameter to signatures, to allow applications to signal specific usage between the signer and verifier. Closes #2133 This PR does not add this to any examples...
This [renders strangely](https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/857) for me, but I still think that it's worth doing.
Cookie names are case-sensitive, which means that `Foo` and `foo` are different cookies. Many frameworks incorrectly treat cookie names as case-insensitive. This is a bug, but a seemingly common one...
I am reporting on some inconsistencies discovered while researching browser/server compliance with rfc6265bis. rfc6265bis-04 changed the cookie parsing algorithm to support nameless cookies, i.e., `Set-Cookie: token` should create a nameless...
Date format
Some have pushed back on using integers for dates, see eg https://github.com/ietf-wg-httpapi/deprecation-header/issues/11 As I suggested there, one accommodation would be to define a new structured type for them. That could...
I wonder if it is worth exploring whether HTML might add QUERY to GET and POST for form submission. It could use application/x-www-wossname and so might be a drop-in replacement...
It might be good to explicitly point out that QUERY responses don't have a URL to identify them, as per [core](https://httpwg.org/http-core/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-latest.html#identifying.content).